In this episode, we unpick the problems inherent in fast fashion and explore societal and regulatory responses to creating a more a sustainable industry.  We examine the role of social media in driving consumption, ponder on the gender divide that makes preloved apparel more attractive to women and hear about new EU policies that will move the industry into the circular economy system. 

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins 

Guests:

Laura de Barra, Author of “Gaff Goddess” and “Décor Galore”

Mary Fleming, founder of Change Clothes Crumlin a community based clothing reuse hub in Dublin 12.

Jo Linehan, Editor of Monthly Climate Supplement with Sunday Times, Sustainability Journalist and Host of Futurist Podcast

This podcast contains audio from a panel discussion that took place at IMMA’s Earth Rising Festival 2023. 

In this episode, we explore corporate responses to the climate and biodiversity emergencies.  We examine the new reporting obligations that corporations are facing in terms of their sustainability, discuss greenwashing, debate the power of consumers, investors, and regulators in pressuring corporations to become more sustainable, and examine terms such as net zero and scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins 

Guests:
Aoife Connaughton, Sustainability Strategy and Risk Lead for Deloitte Ireland

Dr. Fabiola Schneider, an assistant professor in DCU Business School with a research interest in Sustainable Finance

Dr. Aideen O'Dochartaigh , an assistant professor in DCU Business School with a research focus on Sustainability Accounting and Responsible Business.

In the intro sequence to this episode, you heard a clip from the movie Wall Street.

In this episode of the Code Red climate podcast, we speak to three Irish nature writers about the recent boom in environmental literature.

What motivated them to write about the environment? Have our perceptions of what constitutes a wild landscape changed? What is the state of wild nature in Ireland?

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins

Guests:

- Mary Reynolds, reformed landscape designer, author of We Are The Ark: Returning Our Gardens to their True Nature with Acts of Restorative Kindness, and founder of the global rewilding movement We are the Ark

- Pádraic Fogarty, campaigns officer with the Irish Wildlife Trust, editor of Irish Wildlife magazine and author of Whittled Away: Ireland's Vanishing Nature

- Eoghan Daltún, sculptor, rewilder, and author of the best-selling An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding

In our intro sequence to this episode you heard seagulls from Dublin, blackbirds singing in Kilkenny. the ocean waves from the West of Ireland and the sound of a river that has no name in south Co Wexford.

The economic system, the energy system, the agriculture system - all of society's systems - need to change in response to climate breakdown. But just how difficult is it to change systems especially when they are supported by policy and the status quo. What will systems change look like and will it bring a better quality of life to all? These are some of the questions we tackle in this episode 'A Systems Response to Climate Change'

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins

Guests:  Deirdre Duff, Head of Communications at Friends of the Earth, Dr. Patrick Bresnihan, author and lecturer in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University

In the intro sequence to this episode you heard extracts from a public lecture delivered by Professor John Barry, Queens University Belfast titled, "Hope and agency in responding to our planetary crisis: climate resilient futures beyond carbon, growth and capitalism", and at our annual conference in 2022, Sharon Finnegan, Director of the EPA as panel speaker on the topic of, "Climate policy-making in a turbulent world" . All speeches can be heard in full on our website dcu.ie/climate

The humanities and social sciences have an important role to play in helping us find different ways to think and talk about climate change, and to engage with the defining issue of our times. In this podcast, we look at the differences between the humanities and the social sciences and speak to our guests about how their expertise and research in film studies and policy studies can help to bring about climate action.  

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins

Guests:  Janet Walker, Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Pat Brereton, Professor in the School of Communications, DCU, and Diarmuid Torney, Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government, DCU.

Can movies help us understand climate change?

Film has a unique ability to engage and move people. It is an ideal medium to inform and motivate audiences around climate action. But can movies with an environmental theme also discourage audiences by lecturing them?

The role of eco-cinema is explored in this episode, and the influence of movies such as An Inconvenient Truth and Don't Look Up! are discussed.

Host: Dr. Dave Robbins
Guests: Eco-cinema researcher Prof. Pat Brereton, documentary expert Dr. Eileen Culloty, and filmmaker Tom Burke, all of DCU School of Communications